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Personal stories from writers, critics and publicists about the life and legacy of late English novelist Martin Amis (1949-2023). Host and producer: Jack Aldane Music: 'June' by Nigel Martin Twitter: @mymartinamis Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Leon Craig's debut novel The Decadence was published in September of 2025, with the paperback due to be published in August 2026. She speaks to Jack Aldane about Amis's 2010 novel The Pregnant Widow , a complex synthesis
Many a male Amis reader owes his smoking habit to the author. The novelist Kevin Power is one who thought he'd quit for good, until he spotted Amis and Isabel Fonseca walking on the grounds of Ireland's prestigious Borri
For this episode of My Martin Amis, we're plugging into the London recording studio of the New Statesman magazine. From the intro: "Founded by economists and social reformers Sidney and Beatrice Webb and the Irish playwr
David Szalay won the Booker Prize for his sixth novel Flesh in 2025. In this tense, spare, frictionless work of fiction, he drip feeds us the story of the laconic male protagonist Istvan, who spends his youth in a juveni
In the basement room of an East London flat one rainy January morning, Jack sat down with the Irish writer Rob Doyle to discuss the publication of his third novel, Cameo, and delve into his long and complex love for the
This episode takes Jack Aldane to Manchester, where he meets two men who knew Martin Amis in a rather unique setting. Ian McGuire and John McAuliffe, both esteemed authors, are the co-founders of The Centre for New Writi
In this episode, Jack sits down with the award-winning author and novelist Geoff Dyer at his home to discuss the Good Book of Mart (as distinct from the Big Book of Mart), AKA The War Against Cliché. Geoff recalls his fi
Ross Barkan is a 35 year-old American journalist and novelist from Bay Ridge, Brooklyn. His third novel, Glass Century, was published on 6 May 2025. On a semi-vacation to London this summer, Ross and Jack met to speak ab
Vincenzo Barney travelled all the way from Massachusetts to join a panel of eight speakers at the My Martin Amis LIVE show in March this year. If you haven't listened to it already, do go back and hit play. Since then, V
On Sunday 23 March 2025, listeners of the podcast gathered in Central London to watch a live Amisathon, featuring 8 panellists and the show's host. The panel included former guests as well as a couple of new faces: Leo R
Martin Amis's 1997 novel Night Train followed a trifecta of bestsellers: Money, London Fields and The Information. Written as a dark parody of the noir genre, Night Train follows female detective Mike Hoolihan on an inve
English novelist Anthony Quinn has met and interviewed Martin Amis on several occasions. Their first encounter followed the publication of London Fields in 1989, the second during the publicity storm that came with Amis'
British author, journalist and war correspondent David Patrikarakos was due to leave the UK for Athens in the summer of 2024. Before he left, he discovered My Martin Amis, and quickly got in touch to ask to tell his stor
On this episode, British journalist, author and video game critic for The Observer Simon Parkin reaches into the more obscure corners of Amis's bibliography to dissect a dazzling collection of arcade game reviews publish
John Niven is a Scottish author and screenwriter whose books include Kill Your Friends, The Amateurs, The Second Coming. The F*ck-it List, and O Brother. John discusses his favourite of Amis's novel, The Information, pub
Reporter for The Sunday Times Will Lloyd sits down with Jack Aldane on this ninth episode to discuss The Second Plane, a collection of twelve pieces of nonfiction and two short stories by Amis published in 2008, covering
Journalist and memoirist Graham Caveney speaks to Jack Aldane on this eighth episode of the series about Martin Amis's iconoclastic fifth novel Money: A Suicide Note. He and the host discuss the novel's true subject, whi
Leo Robson is a freelance writer whose work has featured in The New Yorker, Harpers and New Statesman, among others. In this episode, he and the series' host and producer Jack Aldane sit down to discuss Martin Amis's fou
Editor of Cap X Alys Denby discovered Martin Amis through a boy at university would she would later go on to marry. The first book of Amis's he leant her was Success, published in 1978. Success juxtaposes two lives set i
Columnist, podcast and book reviewer for The London Times James Marriott joins Jack Aldane on Episode 5 to discuss The War Against Cliché , an anthology of Martin Amis's reviews and essays from 1971 to 2000. It was the b
Geoff Dyer
non-fiction writer and novelist
1 appearance on this show
Ross Barkan
novelist
1 appearance on this show
John Niven
2 appearances on this show
James Marriott
columnist, book reviewer · We are Sound Media
2 appearances on this show
Sam Leith
literary editor of The Spectator · The Spectator
1 appearance on this show
Zoe Strimpel
gender scholar, author and columnist
2 appearances on this show
Simon Parkin
The Observer
1 appearance on this show
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